Deprecated response files.

[VZout]

To simplify the code I removed response files based on the suggestion of @alexcrichton. I now call the assemble commands multiple times.

This solves #496 as well.

Currently I'm using the same logic that splits the assemble command for all hosts. Let me know if you only want to split it only for Windows.

[alexcrichton]

Thanks for this! Have you confirmed that this works on both gnu-like platforms and MSVC? I think we need to be sure to pass various flags to ar and lib.exe to get this to work, but I'm not sure if we do that by default. (if possible adding a test would be great)

[VZout]

Thanks for this! Have you confirmed that this works on both gnu-like platforms and MSVC? I think we need to be sure to pass various flags to ar and lib.exe to get this to work, but I'm not sure if we do that by default. (if possible adding a test would be great)

I was able to compile physx-rs for windows and for android without problem. But I did minimal testing. I'll double check to make sure everything works fine.

[alexcrichton]

To confirm, when you say you compile for Windows, do you mean MSVC or MinGW?

[VZout]

MSVC. I'll try MinGW/GCC tomorrow. Compiling for android using clang worked.

[VZout]

Apparently this doesn't work just work 🤦‍♂️ Must have been building against the wrong local version... My bad.

I couldn't find any documentation on lld or lib.exe on how to do progressive linking like this. Do you have a reference for the various flags that need to be passed?

Also this solution is not 100% fool prove since in theory a single argument could exceed the command line limit.

[alexcrichton]

Sorry I'm not super familiar with lib.exe, but with ar I'm pretty sure there's options to keep appending to the end of the archive but I'm unfortunately not sure what they are.

[Jake-Shadle]

By default, LIB names the output file using the base name of the first object or library file and the extension .lib. The output file is put in the current directory. If a file already exists with the same name, the output file replaces the existing file. To preserve an existing library, use the /OUT option to specify a name for the output file.

The documentation for lib.exe seems to indicate that using /OUT will append if the library already exists, should be easy enough to test though by calling it twice with different object files then running /LIST.

[VZout]

By default, LIB names the output file using the base name of the first object or library file and the extension .lib. The output file is put in the current directory. If a file already exists with the same name, the output file replaces the existing file. To preserve an existing library, use the /OUT option to specify a name for the output file.

The documentation for lib.exe seems to indicate that using /OUT will append if the library already exists, should be easy enough to test though by calling it twice with different object files then running /LIST.

Huh I tried that a little while ago but didn't work. Will try again.

[VZout]

@maxded Solved the issue I was having!